Core Principles
Dromos Partners hand selects the most decorated pre-collegiate researchers in the world to serve on our team.
Our engagements are deliberately few. We view each of our partnerships as working relationships with our clients. An opportunity to develop our students and their work into tangible outputs that meet their most ambitious goals.
Working with Dromos guarantees direct mentorship from our founding partners at every step.
Flagship
We’ll teach you exactly what helped us win 1st in the world, and all the mistakes we made along the way.
Flagship is a 1+ year advisory relationship tailored individually to every client. Our core philosophy is that every individual has a different “best path,” and Flagship is built in accordance with that. We will partner with you to develop your ideas and interests into work that can stand on the biggest stages of pre-collegiate science.
With this package you will work 1 on 1 with each of our founding partners and have 24-7 access to our contacts. Whatever you may need, including flying out to your competitions, finding opportunities you may never have thought of, or connecting you with other students from companies and programs across the world, is possible within this partnership.
In alignment with our Philosophy, we hope that you will truly come to love the work you create and will turn whatever interests you have, whether sports, medicine, or even art, seriously anything, into a specific project you love.
Flagship is by application only. To start, book a free consultation.
Book a free consultationVantage
A shorter version of our Flagship package, for students who have research underway.
Good research is only part of the equation when it comes to science competitions. The other part, and often the more important part, is how you present it. Vantage is a shorter version of our Flagship, built for students who have already started.
It starts with a full read of everything you’ve done so far. We go through every single part of your project exactly how a judge would. We get to know you and your project as well as possible. Then we help you build the very strongest version of it, step by step.
We show you the exact tools and methods that helped us win and connect you with region specific experts when advantageous. From graphical design tools, to the tape on your poster, to the outfit you wear to competitions, we show you how to turn your science into its strongest version.
By building the competitive expression of your work we will help set you up for the very highest chances of success. We are extremely detail oriented and will help ensure every form, figure, and piece of text is at the standard judges actually hold you to.
Vantage is by application only. To start, book a free consultation.
Book a free consultationFinale
Finale is for clients who already have their full project complete. Each founding partner individually reads through every part of what you’re submitting to your competition. Then we sit down together and hand you one set of advice all three of us agree on. When advantageous or requested, we’ll call in our strategic advisors for more expert opinions.
We’ll be brutally and constructively honest with you either way, positive or negative, and give you an unbiased look at your entire submission, front to back.
- Two 1-on-1 sessions with the founders, one before review and one after
- A full audit plus review of everything you submitted, with comments everywhere we see revisions
- A look over your forms when requested, to ensure compliance with acceptability
- A large document of all the questions we anticipate a judge may ask you regarding your submission or project
- Insider advice on figure generation, what tape or paper to use for your display, even what to wear and the color schemes that fit your work best
Finale does not require an application. To start, book a free consultation.
Book a free consultationWe teach you the details most overlook that lead to the biggest wins
- How do you change the framing of your project depending on the competition and audience?
- How do you shift your presentation pending the judge... their tone... their body language... their experience?
- How do you address a judge when they first come up? Just talk? Small talk? Introduction?
- What do you do when you genuinely do not know the answer to a question?
- What do you do when a judge is being outright disrespectful?
- Which competitions do you really need to apply for?
- Do you actually need to log everything in a lab notebook?
- How much energy should you actually put into your annotations?
- When judges arrive late what do you do?
- What to do when your poster gets lost the day before judging?
Many more will come up during our advising.
A dromos (δρόμος) is a racecourse in ancient Greek
We ran this track recently, and we won. We know the turns, the false starts, and exactly where even the best competitors trip. The competitions we advise have public rule books, forms, and videos. The gap, therefore, is insider course knowledge. Our goal is to guide you towards your finish line with efficiency and extreme candor.
Independence & authorship
We do not ghostwrite, fabricate results, or create work to be presented as the student's own.
Our involvement is documented and disclosed where required.